Senior Technical Animator (Unreal Engine)

SENIOR TECHNICAL ANIMATOR (BLACK PHOENIX GAMES)

🕹 Action-Adventure
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote (Europe) / 👔 Office (Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪)

🦄 Description
Black Phoenix Games is looking for a Senior Technical Animator to join its growing independent studio team.

The studio is formed by developers who have contributed to critically acclaimed and commercially successful games over the past two decades. Their current project is an action-adventure game built in Unreal Engine with a strong emphasis on traversal systems, animation quality, agility mechanics, and immersive world-building.

The team is seeking a technical animator passionate about scalable pipelines, runtime animation systems, and solving complex technical challenges in close collaboration with gameplay, character, and technical art teams.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain advanced animation systems in Unreal Engine
• Create and improve character rigging and runtime animation implementation
• Collaborate closely with gameplay, character art, and technical art teams
• Support advanced traversal and agility gameplay systems
• Build scalable animation pipelines and workflows
• Solve complex technical animation and integration challenges
• Ensure high-quality animation fidelity and responsiveness in gameplay

📚 Required Skills
• Strong professional experience with Unreal Engine
• Expertise in animation systems and runtime implementation
• Strong rigging and technical animation knowledge
• Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary game development teams
• Ability to build scalable workflows and pipelines
• Strong technical problem-solving skills
• Experience working on gameplay-driven animation systems
• Must be based within Europe

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience working on action-adventure games
• Knowledge of advanced traversal systems
• Experience with immersive gameplay animation workflows
• Background working on AAA-quality productions
• Passion for high-fidelity character animation

🍪 What we offer
• Remote work within Europe
• Opportunity to join an experienced independent studio
• Work on a high-quality Unreal Engine action-adventure title
• Collaborative environment with veteran developers
• Opportunity to influence core animation systems and pipelines

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